“‘If John Murtha was running for dog-catcher or President of the United States, Nancy Pelosi would support him,’ one Pelosi ally told TIME.” Not a week after Election Day, the battle for the No. 2 spot in Congress roils top Dems, with Speaker-elect Pelosi drawing consternation for her endorsement of John Murtha as House Majority Leader (over more conservative rival Steny Hoyer.) More troubling than the leadership fracas, it seems that Murtha, for all his clarity on Iraq, has apparently been no friend of ethics reform in the past: “Murtha…has battled accusations over the years that he has traded federal spending for campaign contributions, that he has abused his post as ranking party member on the Appropriations defense subcommittee, and that he has stood in the way of ethics investigations. Those charges come on top of Murtha’s involvement 26 years ago in the FBI’s Abscam bribery sting.” Nope, that’s not good.
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yeah, but i bet he’d make a great dog-catcher. Shouldn’t that phrase be updated by now, anyway? Don’t we need a new stand-in for lowest job on the totem pole? “I’d support him for president or the janitor on porn sets”
bc…Not to be crass, but I’m not sure janitor is the worst job on porn sets. [rimshot] (Nor is any position an elected one…which may well be for the best. Politics is already showbiz for ugly people — no need to bring that aesthetic into “adult entertainment.”)